you sort of notice this happening in waves in certain disciplines the same ideas getting popular and then crashing the same way they did last time I bet memes have saecula toohttps://twitter.com/Meaningness/status/1390808727230377987 …
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a common example of this might be warfare and its lessons eg, imagine a peaceful society is attacked; it raises armies and learns to fight. the next generation hears of war from their fathers, but they don't know war themselves; their children don't even know anyone who did
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so then another invasion occurs and they have no idea what they are doing. this happened repeatedly during the Roman Republic
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it might be better for a society to go through regular periods of minor challenge all else equal because this might prevent total social unpreparedness in the even of a larger disaster
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I think we're more defined by this government specifically
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